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if i'm run an application that only supports a single core it'll be slower then if i'm using the same application on a dual-core IE so the application will run faster on a dual-core?

anyone help plz

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Dual core sounds really cool and it is cool technology. The fact that you have two working cores on the same sized socket as single core is sweet and it's definitely needed to take CPU design to the next level considering how hot modern high MHz CPUs run these days. One of my concerns about the dual core technology is the naming system that AMD have chosen. It confuses people. People read Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and they mentally think of 2 3800+ CPUs. That's not the case at all. It's closer to two Athlon 64 3200+ CPUs in terms of clock speed. Although there are two cores, every game we tested equals the performance of one single core 3200+. FarCry has dual core support but during testing I monitored CPU usage and if 75% of one core was in use, only 25% of the other core was used. So you still have the equivalent of one CPU core sitting there doing nothing.

Reply to evongugg

i don't do very well with fragments but i'll give it a try anyway. i think your trying to ask if the app is single threaded will it still run faster on a dual core?
to awnser that, at the same clock speeds yes.(3200+ compared to a 3800+ the 3800+ would run faster because the second core can take care of drivers n such.)
but if your comparing something like a 3800+ to a x2 3800+ the x2 would get blown away in single threaded apps, but it multi threaded the x2 would catch right back up. also the fastest processers availble are dual core not single core (any core 2 will run around a single core with the execption of maybe a fx57 compared to a 6300)

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so if i run an application that is single threaded on a P4 3.8GHZ then it'll run faster

THEN IF

I run the same application on a core2 e6600(2.4GHZ) so does this mean that the application will be running at 2.4GHZ couse the application only supports 1 core?

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so if i run an application that is single threaded on a P4 3.8GHZ then it'll run faster

THEN IF

I run the same application on a core2 e6600(2.4GHZ) so does this mean that the application will be running at 2.4GHZ course the application only supports 1 core?



:roll: What is Wrong with you? Of course not! A Single threaded application will run FASTER in a 1.8Ghz Core 2 E6300 Than a Single core Core or Even a Hyper threaded Pentium 4(Net burst)

Why would New technology that takes over AMD, and Molests and Rapes the "pentium" brand name Run anything slower.

*Even the Slowest Core 2 Duo Runs that Application 40%faster and with 40% less power Consumption (a result of Super improvements In Core Architecture and Shortening of the pipelines and increase of the Work per unit the Processor can do per MHz)
I and any Computer knowing person can tell you that Core 2 Duo Will beat Pentium In anything

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